Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web finally weighs in on the Net Neutrality debate in a blog entry. It is accompanied by a video which is currently only available in RealVideo format, hopefully someone will upload it to Google video or YouTube so most of the world can watch ...
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
In my previous post I argue that internet neutrality legislation could help ease the transition to an internet society and economy. On further thought and debate I'm not really sure that regulation would be the most constructive response to the threat of network discrimination. The internet has a long history ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Yoda said "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" He didn't run a site on the internet, which is and always will be a "best effort network" with no guarantees of availability and performance. It is up to the customer to optimize these aspects the best they can for ...
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
Following the debate on fair use is a great way to dive into information economics. We all know and love that various kinds of media (audio, video, print...) are used to create songs, movies and books (or more generally "works"). These information creations are economically important as they are often ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
Now is a truly amazing time to be alive for the curious and adventurous - opportunities to do what you enjoy for a living have never been better. The information available on obscure interests is amazing. There is lots to be optimistic about as the future will continue to bring ...
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Saturday, November 20th, 2004
In the world of search, Google was in the right place at the right time with the right technology and people. This remarkably hard thing to achieve has been rewarded by a large customer base and a vast overvaluation of public stock. Don't get me wrong, this is a standout ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Why does "information want to be free"?
I think the phrase is a good way of explaining to most people that information is really hard to treat like property. The cost of reproduction and transportation is absurdly low, thus it is trivial to distribute freely, in the sense of "free as ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
The coming economic crisis in information
I enjoyed reading Adam Rifkin's back of the envelope calculations about personal information storage and processing. I'm looking forward to trying to make at least a few of the @20 Gigabytes of information I will deal with in my life really count. I know a ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
People to look to for futher reading on intellectual property, especially copyright and patent.
John Perry Barlow
Wrote the influential Economy of Ideas in 1994 which is a great introduction to some of the issues facing intellectual property. I read it in Wired back then, and remember that it fascinated me but ...
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2004
Speaking of free information.
Wikipedia is a brilliant project which is just the start of an all encompassing encylopedia written by the people for the people. A wiki is a website which can be edited by the users leading to a democratic approach to building and managing content.
The wiki method of ...
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Monday, August 2nd, 2004
Intellectual properties include copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets and mask works. (yes I needed to look that one up also!)
The laws that govern such properties and their relationship to society were designed to foster investment in creativity and innovation since society would (arguably) be much less productive without the ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2004
If you are, at a minimum, a consumer of copyrighted materials (e.g. books, movies, television, art, music) and especially if you are a creator of such content, and finally MOST ESPECIALLY if you care about diversity of culture and freedom of expression you MUST take 60 minutes from your life ...
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